• @masquenox
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    -405 months ago

    A well-working educational system is clearly the best weapon against fascism.

    That has never stopped fascism before. Ever.

    • @[email protected]
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      5 months ago

      I think they assume “well working” means “is not a propaganda tool for the fascists.”

      They probably don’t want to acknowledge that capturing schools, and what history and literature they are allowed to teach, is also the easiest way to create the Hitler Youth.

      It also rather demonstrates that they are the best way to create the Anti-Hitler Youth.

      • @masquenox
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        185 months ago

        It also rather demonstrates that they are the best way to create the Anti-Hitler Youth.

        As far as I’m aware, proper antifascism is not a subject taught at European schools. Today’s antifascists had to learn it the same way the interwar antifascists learned it - from scratch.

        But it’s actually far, far worse than that. Liberal societies are utterly unwilling to confront what fascism really is nor the reasons fascism grows so easily in said liberal societies, and education cirriculums, of course, follow suit. This all makes it very easy for fascism to fester pretty much out in the open.

        I won’t be relying on a formal education system to even slow fascism down… never mind stop it.

        • @barsquid
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          55 months ago

          What is the proper anitfascism?

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            25 months ago

            Definitely not the way the GDR did it. In the west it actually was simple, besides the obvious (teaching accurate history) boiling down to essentially Schopenhauer:

            The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

            And it works! Germans take much pride in their individual capacity to complain about the nation.

          • @lath
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            05 months ago

            Let go of your earthly desires and become Buddha.

      • @ArgentRaven
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        15 months ago

        That, and also that’s not how the English language works.

      • @masquenox
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        105 months ago

        Fascism is always populated by ignorant morons. Always.

        And the capitalists who funds fascism? Are they ignorant morons, too?

        What about the media, which goes out of it’s way to downplay fascism? Are they morons as well?

        What about the police, who always protects and enables fascism - what about them?

        Your understanding of fascism is dangerously naive.